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Mark Shields

"George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters."

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"George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters."

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"The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it."

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"A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank."

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"When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good."

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"Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used."

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"I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same."

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"There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant."

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"Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid."

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"The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese."

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"If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive."

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